{"id":56592,"date":"2017-11-23T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=56592"},"modified":"2017-11-23T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:13:10","slug":"polytechnic-learn-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/11\/23\/polytechnic-learn-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Polytechnic learn the hard-way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polytechnic netball team skipper, Israellah Chirwa, has admitted that they are struggling on their return to the Rainbow Paints Southern Region Netball League.<\/p>\n<p>Chirwa said most of the team\u2019s players are yet to come to terms playing against big-name players in the league.<\/p>\n<p>However, the team has improved in the second-round, having defeated Young Professionals 46-30 at Blantyre Youth Centre on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the first time that most of us were playing against national team players. So, we couldn\u2019t play competitively against such opposition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chirwa said Polytechnic were adapting to the demands of the league, having collected seven points in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on position nine but if we can do better in some games, we will move towards a good position,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Young Professionals skipper, Sarai Chizaka, attributed the team\u2019s poor run of form to poor officiation and lack of a qualified coach.<\/p>\n<p>Professionals anchor the 10-member log table with four points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polytechnic netball team skipper, Israellah Chirwa, has admitted that they are struggling on their return to the Rainbow Paints Southern Region Netball League. Chirwa said most of the team\u2019s players are yet to come to terms playing against big-name players in the league. However, the team has improved in the second-round, having defeated Young Professionals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56599,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56592\/revisions\/56599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}